DCUO: Bugs, Cheats and PVP Hacks

I was logged in last week to do some PvP, hopped on my hero to check out the AH, well lo and behold, who should I see in the Watchtower but the infamous Frank Sinatra, trash talking, how he was never punished for cheating, and his character is still completely the same. I inspected his gear, and sure enough, he still had everything.

Whether or not he is telling the truth about being disciplined is irrelevant, however. Why is he allowed back in the game at all SoE? Really?? You had the ENTIRE (no, that's not an exaggeration, since this incident occurred after the server merge) player population up in arms about his blatant hacking of the game. If you do not follow your own EULA, why should the players?

In conclusion, thank you for making my decision to never, EVER look at another one of your games again so much easier. Last week, after PvPing for a couple of hours, and once again finding myself with nothing to do afterwards, I started to bang my head against the wall until it was raw and bloody, painfully reciting, as I always do "WHY AM I STILL PLAYING THIS?!!?!?" and STILL I had hope for you. It's amazing how just the NAME of ONE player caused your game to nearly collapse (and it's a miracle it didn't considering the shape it was in), and now you're basically telling the small remaining playerbase "All is forgiven of him". Way to go. See you never.

Once again, it has been proven that any combat engine based on the NGE "fast action" concept is doomed to fail. Either it relies too much on server/network/client and you get massive lag with 10 people or it relies too much on the client thus opening itself up to massive cheating.

Second day of F2P going live, and someone is ALREADY Speedhacking. My leaguemate FRAPSED this idiot yesterday. On top of that, Nov 1st Servers were down 15 hours for the transition. Yesterday, you were able to play for all of 4 hours of the day because servers kept crashing. Today, the same problems have been happening. You go on for 10 minutes, get insane rubberband lag, get d/c'd. Servers go down for 3 hours. Rinse and repeat 5 times so far today. That's how good the developers at SoE are.

Of course, communication from SOE on the issue is non-existent.

Don't bother even wasting your time on the F2P. Free to Play is not worth your time. Free to Play is worth less than nothing. SOE should be paying people to play this POS.

Just wanted to give you guys an update on the wonderfulness that is DCUO. That is to say, hacking & cheating is still possible, with really no end in sight due to SOE's combination of apathy and ignorance in their coding. This program was released on December 6. That's right. Less than a week ago. Almost a year into release and this is still possible. As much as I don't like hacking, I gotta give props to people like Tagyoureit because they are the ones finding the true vulnerabilities of the game. Enjoy!

SOE is more interested in selling you Holiday content and new DLC "things" than they are fixing these silly little bugs. Nobody needs to PAY for fixes to hacks/exploits...they do for new content though, hence SOE's priority is new DLC.

I'm not, but some of my leaguemates still do, and they're still seeing this stuff, especially in PvP. They're all just basically killing time until TOR, but we talk about DCUO on vent/league forums still.